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... salads, pasta, lasagna, prosciutto, and tartufo for dessert. There was so much to take in for one day. We made our way back to the car and then needed to get petrol. That is an event in of itself. VERY different than in the US and each station is slightly different. After much debate, we were able to put euros into the machine and pump gas into the minivan. After a wrong turn into a neighboring area, we made it home with plenty of time to go for a swim. Pilar ...

... staying in the big house with him to dinner. Since I had no drinks to bring him (he turned up his nose at the offer of the soy milk or chocolate rice milk I have in my fridge for some odd reason!), I brought him one of my mini re-paintings instead of Austin Starry Night. Dinner was Italian, of course, with focaccia topped with fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce plus garlic, an interesting salad of onions, mint and watermelon, ...

... cocktail that was piled so high I was afraid they were going to fall over the sides of our glasses. The next morning, we had breakfast In a crowded Italian "bar" (a combination of a bakery and a coffee shop) It felt super Italian to order a coffee to drink at the counter with all the locals going to work in the morning. We set out to the museum we had put off until that morning, only to find out that most museums( the two we wanted to get to) were closed Mondays. With ...

Today we hopped on a bus and went about an hour out of Florence to a small town in the middle of Tuscany called Greve in Chianti. The bus was full so we didn't get to sit together and the ride through the mountains almost got the best of us. We were both a little queasy when we got off. Tuscany is beautiful though. A few days ago we booked a small bed and breakfast here. It turned out to be only two rooms and ...

... than I expected, and at first, I thought “well, yup, looks just like the pictures.” Then you stand still for a moment and keep looking up, and you realize you can see everything… the veins in the crook of his elbow, the way the muscles pull across his ribs, the tightness of tendons in his lower legs. While the face is definitely well done, it is antique and stone- but the rest of his body is surreal, and you ...